liberty quotes

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Empire and liberty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When liberty returns, I will return.”

— Victor Hugo

“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”

— Victor Hugo

“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. ”

— Franz Kafka

“This young century will be liberty's century. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest. ”

— George Washington Bush

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”

— Barack Obama

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”

— James Madison

“The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”

— James Madison

“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

— James Madison

“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”

— James Madison

“The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”

— James Madison

“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

— James Madison

“As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.”

— James Madison

“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”

— James Madison

“A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.”

— James Madison

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

— James Madison

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